Tutors' deliberations for implementing a Learning Analytics Dashboard in the educational context

Designing a Learning Analytics Dashboard (LAD) to provide students with insight and actionable feedback should be done with involvement of relevant stakeholders (e.g.) students, tutors, tutor program coordinators, and study advisors. However, even then effective uptake is not assured, as the implementation into the educational context is a distinct part of the process. This paper describes how interviews and a focus group were held to map an implementation process, and how to support implemention of a LAD into an educational context. Results showed that implementation decisions were not always based on pedagogical principles and were sometimes practical in nature. As more elaborate deliberations could positively affect implementation effectiveness, a roadmap was designed to support the implementation process. In it, tutors answer ‘what’ and ‘why’ questions, aimed to deepen the choices at phases of the implementation.